LOPEZ
Department of Philosophy
University of Maryland tlopez@email.arizona.edu
College Park, MD 20742 theresalopez.weebly.com
EDUCATION
2006-2013 University of Arizona
Ph.D. Philosophy, minor in Cognitive Science
Dissertation: The Moral Mind: Emotion, Evolution, and the Case for Skepticism
Committee: Mark Timmons (chair), Shaun Nichols, Terry Horgan, Michael Gill
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2017- Presidents Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park
PUBLICATIONS
Nichols, S., Kumar, S., Lopez, T., Ayars, A., & Chan, H. (2016). Rational Learners and Moral
Rules. Mind & Language, 31, 5, 530-554.
Nichols, S., Timmons, M., & Lopez, T. (2013). Ethical Conservatism and the Psychology of Moral
Luck. In M. Christen et al. (Eds.), Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality Between Facts and
Norms. Springer.
Lopez, T., Zamzow, J., Gill, M., & Nichols, S. (2009). Side Constraints and the Structure of
Commonsense Ethics. Philosophical Perspectives, 23, 1, 305-319.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition: Implications for Moral Psychology and the
Linguistic Analogy
Against the Evolutionary Argument for Moral Skepticism
Psychology and Normative Ethics: the Case of Deontological Morality
Social Structures and Individual Wrongdoing: Toward An Integrative Account of Social Injustice
(with Bryan Chambliss)
How to Naturalize Moral Inquiry
The Actual Disagreement Challenge to Moral Realism: A Rebuttal (with Gregory Robson)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
How to Naturalize Moral Inquiry
Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park 2018
APA Central Division Meeting 2018
Social Structures and Individual Wrongdoing
Bias in Context Conference, University of Utah 2017
Psychology and Normative Ethics: the Case of Deontological Morality
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress 2016
Does Neuroscience Have Normative Implications?, IIT 2016
Moral Epistemology Workshop, The Prindle Institute for Ethics 2015
Against the Evolutionary Argument for Moral Skepticism
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress 2014
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2011
Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition: Implications for Moral Psychology
Society for Philosophy and Psychology (poster) 2014
APA Pacific Division Meeting 2010
Reconsidering the Empirical Case for Sentimentalism
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2009
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women in Philosophy, University of Massachusetts-
Amherst, June 2015
June Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts, Center for Social Entrepreneurship,
Middlebury College, June 2014
SERVICE
Referee: Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry, Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, Ethical Perspectives, Cognitive Science Society, Canadian Philosophical Association
Editorial Assistant, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 1
New Graduate Student Orientation Leader, Arizona Department of Philosophy: 2009 2012
Conference Assistant, Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics, 2010
Undergraduate Mentor, Assurance Scholarship Program, University of Arizona, 2009-2010
Graduate Representative, Arizona Department of Philosophy, 2009-2010
Graduate Program Review Committee, Arizona Department of Philosophy, 2008-2009
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Philosophical Association
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
REFERENCES
Mark Timmons Terry Horgan
Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy
University of Arizona University of Arizona
mtimmons@u.arizona.edu thorgan@u.arizona.edu
Robert Simon
Professor of Philosophy
Hamilton College
rsimon@hamilton.edu